Marcos Guglielmetti has announced a new stable release of Musix GNU+Linux, version 1.0R5, a Debian-based distribution designed primarily for musicians and other creative artists: "The Brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges tells us that he has finished the last Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 stable version on CD, a 100% free operating system for artists focused on music production, based on Debian GNU/Linux and KNOPPIX. This version of Musix, 1.0R2R5, fully supports Brazilian Portuguese and English languages, and it partially supports Spanish, French, German and Italian. Borges highlights the updated packages: Muse 0.8.1a (light Audio and MIDI sequencer), Muse Score 0.9.2.2 (score editor), Painel Musix 1.7 (control panel), Rosegarden 1.7.0 (MIDI and Audio sequencer and score editor), knx-installer 0.3.19.90 (a bug fix for the ugly fonts)." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: musixbr1r2_musix1r5.iso (702MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the availability of Musix GNU+Linux 3.0.1, an update to the Debian-based distribution designed for musicians: "The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0.1 Stable. This is a bugfix release related to installation fail due to lack of grub package. Also, now the ISO image is isohybrid, i.e., supports boot from USB or DVD media. For this version of the installable Live DVD/USB Stable we added some video editors like Kdenlive 0.9.6, Avidemux and Cinelerra, added French and Serbian language support, OpenOffice, solved some minor KDE desktop bugs. Some useful information: User: user; Pass: live." Check the brief release announcement and the package list. Download: MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0.1_Stable.iso (2,016MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the release of Musix GNU+Linux 3.0, a Debian-based distribution with a collection of software applications designed for musicians: "The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0 stable. We didn't find serious bugs, so we corrected the known ones and we think this is a great release. For this version of the installable live DVD/USB stable we added some video editors like Kdenlive 0.9.6, Avidemux and Cinelerra, added French and Serbian language support, OpenOffice.org, solved some minor KDE desktop bugs. Musix 3.0 boots into LXDE by default, but you can choose the tailored KDE or IceWM desktops or the original Fluxbox and Openbox; os-probe was installed to detect other systems during HD installation. The Linux kernel 3.4.14-gnu-RT23 is 100% free as well as all software in Musix and it operates in real time for audio and music production." Here is the full release announcement with screenshots. Download: MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0stable.iso (1,931MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Musix GNU+Linux 3.0, a Debian-based distribution designed for musicians: "The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0 release candidate 2. We didn’t found any serious bugs, so we corrected the known ones and we think this is a great release. If nothing weird happens in the span of about two weeks, this will be Musix 3.0 stable that we were all waiting for. Then we will make some improvements for Musix 3.1 (MusixControl running graphically) but there should be minor differences. The installable live DVD was released to get reports from users but it's 99.9% a final stable release. We installed some video editors such as Kdenlive 0.9.6, Avidemux and Cinelerra, added French and Serbian language support, OpenOffice.org, solved some minor KDE desktop bugs...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download: MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc2.iso (1,930MB, MD5).

After nearly four years without a stable release, Musix GNU+Linux, a Debian-based distribution designed for musicians, has been resurrected. The new release is a candidate for the upcoming version 3.0: "The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0 release candidate 1 after 11 months of work since the last beta version and four years since the last stable version 2.0. RC1 was released to get reports from users but it's almost a final release. We updated more than 300 programs from Debian 'Wheezy', re-installed KDE, Rakarrack, Jamin, Blender and various other programs for artistic creation. MusixControl works only in terminal, but that will be resolved soon. IceWM, KDE and LXDE are tailored to activities (office, audio, MIDI, graphics, etc.) The Linux kernel 3.4.14-gnu-RT23 is 100% free (and so is all software in Musix) and it operates in real time for audio and music applications." Here is the brief release announcement which is also available in Spanish. Download: MUSIX_GNU+Linux_3.0rc1.iso (1,688MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the release of Musix GNU/Linux 2.0, a 100% libre, Debian-based distribution with a collection of software for audio production, graphics design and video editing: "It is a great pleasure for us to announce the availability of version 2.0 of the MUSIX GNU/Linux free operating system, after a year of hard community work. You can get MUSIX 2.0 in two ways: live DVD (plus hard disk installer) and USB (persistent, minimum 4 GB). Major new features: Linux kernel 2.6.29.4 real-time 'full preempt', ready for low-latency audio operations either live or installed to hard disk; custom KDE as default desktop (you can also run GNOME, IceWM, Fluxbox, LXDE); based on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 'Lenny'; improved installer and start system; persistent USB edition; extensive and updated set of applications...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: Musix-2.0.iso (1,962MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced that the first beta release of Musix GNU/Linux 2.0 is now ready for testing: "We have released a new version of the 100% free operating system for musicians, graphic designers, video makers, artists and all kinds of users. This remastered version aims to provide a testing system based on the stable Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 'Lenny'. Several packages were updated, such as the Linux 'libre' kernels 2.6.27 and 2.6.29, which were revised to improve mount actions. It includes new versions of programs for musicians compiled by Spanish guitarist Carlos Pino - Ardor 2.8, jackd 0.116.1, lmms-vst 0.4.4, lv2core 3.0, Qtractor 0.4.1, Rosegarden 1.7.3... As a new addition, we added GNOME to the supported desktops - KDE, LXDE and IceWM + Rox." Read the complete release announcement for more information. Download the live DVD image from here: Musix-2-0-Beta1_dvd.iso (2,072MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the availability of the second alpha release of Musix GNU/Linux 2.0, a Debian-based live DVD with a collection of applications for media production: "The Musix GNU/Linux team has released the first Musix 2.0 live DVD which includes a huge list of packages along with several applications for graphic design, audio and music software. English, Spanish, Portuguese and French are fully supported. We have included two new realtime-patched Linux kernels: 2.6.27-free (which replaces the 2.6.26.8-libre2), with new modules and bug fixes, and the 2.6.24.7-rt-libre3 boot option for better hardware compatibility. The 2.6.29.1-libre-rt kernel is included on the DVD but it will work only on installed systems. Desktops: IceWM, LXDE and KDE 3.5.10." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: Musix-2_Alfa2_dvd.iso (1,720MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has released the first alpha build of Musix 2.0, a Debian-based distribution containing a collection of free multimedia software: "Now you can test the alpha 1 release of Musix GNU/Linux 2.0 based on Debian 'Lenny'. Features: a better installer, boot and compression system than Musix 1.0; updated software packages - Ardour 2.7.1, jackd 0.109.2, Rosegarden 1.7.0, Linux 2.6.26.8 and 2.6.24 (both realtime patched), Audacity 1.3.5, GIMP 2.4.7, Solfege 3.10.3, IceWM 1.2.35, etc. We encourage you to test this alpha release so we can get more feedback from artists worldwide. The Rox-Filer launchers are not yet fully working, so please just use the IceWM menu." The distribution claims to have full support for Spanish and English languages; read the rest of the release announcement for more details and a brief to-do list. Download the live CD image from here: Musix-2-0-1.iso (666MB, MD5).

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the availability of an updated release of Musix GNU+Linux, a Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of free audio software: "After three months of testing, the stable release of Musix GNU+Linux live DVD 1.0R6 is out. It's a 100% free operating system for artists focused on music production, graphics design and video editing, based on Debian 'Etch' and KNOPPIX. Some packages were upgraded since Musix live DVD 1.0R4, the knoppix-installer fonts now look good, an old kernel 2.6.16 from Musix 0.99 was added to support old hardware. Also, there are many backports made by the Musix team; we highlight LMMS, Jackd, Mscore, Rosegarden and Ardour. This DVD is used daily in music schools, so we know what teachers and students need." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: Musix1.0R6.iso (2,479MB, MD5).